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§ SummerWorks Spotlight Award for Outstanding Performance
§ Toronto Star’s Works Worth Watching
§ NOW Magazine’s Artist to Watch
Posing interesting social questions, Wonderland is strategic, soulful and expertly engineered.
Jordan Bimm – NOW Magazine
Adam pushes audiences to let go of the polite gentility that dominates our theatre culture. He leads us to speak our minds fearlessly, to expose our darker impulses and to honour our ugliness. I believe that these impulses form the basis of great theatre.
Brendan Healy – Artistic Director, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Thank you for your show - man that's good clownin!
Ed Roy – Award winning playwright and director
This was one of the most spectacular shows I have ever seen. Congratulations! It was a stroke of genius!
Sandra Battaglini, Actor and Canadian Comedy Award Winner
Stunning work in every way. Thank you.
Liza Balkan – Playwright and Actor
§ Toronto Star’s Works Worth Watching
§ NOW Magazine’s Artist to Watch
Posing interesting social questions, Wonderland is strategic, soulful and expertly engineered.
Jordan Bimm – NOW Magazine
Adam pushes audiences to let go of the polite gentility that dominates our theatre culture. He leads us to speak our minds fearlessly, to expose our darker impulses and to honour our ugliness. I believe that these impulses form the basis of great theatre.
Brendan Healy – Artistic Director, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
Thank you for your show - man that's good clownin!
Ed Roy – Award winning playwright and director
This was one of the most spectacular shows I have ever seen. Congratulations! It was a stroke of genius!
Sandra Battaglini, Actor and Canadian Comedy Award Winner
Stunning work in every way. Thank you.
Liza Balkan – Playwright and Actor
Theatromania Review
Rating: 4 stars
Eff (pronounced FFFF) is anything but the usual affable circus clown — he is grotesque, deformed, obnoxious and completely captivating. One of NOW Magazine’s Artists to Watch, Adam Lazarus reprises his acclaimed role under the direction of Canadian Comedy Award nominee Melissa D’Agostino, bringing life to this desperate yet terrifyingly lucid character. Eff never lets the audience off the hook by allowing a completely passive theatre experience. He is constantly changing it up, singing, eating, swearing, dancing (as much as a no-legged man can) even feigning sexual acts, in order to challenge misconceptions and address unpleasant truths about today’s society. We are starkly reminded of our own voyeurism as Lazarus breaks the fourth wall and makes the audience squirm as well as laugh hysterically. Lazarus is an amazing physical actor and an incredible storyteller; he doesn’t just play the character, he crawls into the bouffon‘s skin and inhabits him. While we as an audience are busy questioning and evaluating Eff’s every move, every intention, we remain fascinated, like seeing a train wreck, with morbid curiosity. This hilarious yet illuminating one-man show is highly recommended.
Wonderland runs until August 15th at The Theatre Centre.
Visit the SummerWorks website for more info.
Wonderland runs until August 15th at The Theatre Centre.
Visit the SummerWorks website for more info.
TorontoStage.com interview:
That Adam Lazurus doesn’t know when to quit. And for the record, that’s a good thing. Having dazzled audiences with the highly successful staging ofFable, a nasty, biting, satire laced production that toured for two years; his follow-up project is called Wonderland. And yes, it stars the comically offensive creature named Eff. The self-professed Garden of Eden native utters bad words galore and specializes in discomfort.
Yet, despite this, Eff strangely still makes an undeniable connection with playgoers. There’s an Eff lurking in all of us which is all the reason needed to keep the character popping up in new story ideas for years to come.
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That Adam Lazurus doesn’t know when to quit. And for the record, that’s a good thing. Having dazzled audiences with the highly successful staging ofFable, a nasty, biting, satire laced production that toured for two years; his follow-up project is called Wonderland. And yes, it stars the comically offensive creature named Eff. The self-professed Garden of Eden native utters bad words galore and specializes in discomfort.
Yet, despite this, Eff strangely still makes an undeniable connection with playgoers. There’s an Eff lurking in all of us which is all the reason needed to keep the character popping up in new story ideas for years to come.
READ MORE
